"E-6B Mercury “Doomsday plane” with brand new dome" Topic
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Tango01 | 26 Feb 2014 10:11 p.m. PST |
"The U.S. Navy operates a fleet of E-6B TACAMO ("TAke Charge And Move Out"). The "Mercury" aircraft are extremely important as they are used to relay instructions to the fleet ballistic missile submarines in case of nuclear war but also act as back ups of the four E-4Bs NAOC (National Alternate Operations Center), working as ABNCP (Airborne Command Post) platforms (hence "Doomsday Plane"). On Feb. 14, Military Radio Comms Expert Allan Stern took a photograph of E-6B TACAMO 164407 landing at Patrick Air Force Base and several people noticed that there is a new dome on the aircraft, clearly visible before the tail. What's that new dome used for? Someone on the MilRadioComs group managed by Stern suggested the new dome looks the same size as the WiFi antennas on commercial aircraft
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BigNickR | 27 Feb 2014 5:39 a.m. PST |
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Brian Bronson | 27 Feb 2014 11:31 a.m. PST |
The Senior Communications Officer assigned to that station is exceptionally tall. They had to "bump out" the fuselage so he wouldn't hit his head all the time. Now if it were one of the junior comms officers, they would have told him to just suck it up and duck. But since this was a Senior officer
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